Lyria Guardia let her family down three years ago.

Gods help her, it will never happen again.

After a crushing betrayal by the man she’d built her life around, Lyria abandons her promising career with the Adventurers’ Guild and returns, humiliated and heartbroken, to work in the venerable Guard’s Guild that her family has run for hundreds of years.

Desperate to prove herself to her five brothers, Lyria is determined to do her very best on whatever assignment she’s given.

Even if that assignment involves dragging a spoiled noble brat through the Demon Forest in search of a mysterious missing contract…

Stay tuned for more updates about The Flame and The Blade, my forthcoming epic fantasy romance under the pen name Meredith Hart